It is nearly noon under the blazing sun of Kambilo, a village in the north of the mining province of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). On one side of a clearing, local stallholders and merchants are setting up shop. On the other side, several hundred people line up patiently. They are...

Thirteen-year-old Nakhlah Ramadhan was tending sheep with her younger sister Fatima on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, when she stepped on a landmine. She was killed instantly; Fatima was seriously injured.
In neighbouring Bani Al-Harith District, Safa’a Luqman and her younger...

In March 2012, 20-year-old Muhammad Ismail’s life was turned upside down. Fighting between the army and a militant group forced Ismail and his family to flee their home in Khyber Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in north-west Pakistan.
Just after leaving his home, Ismail ran...

The crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) began in late December 2012, when a rebel group seized cities in the north and began to march towards the capital, Bangui. The Seleka Coalition – an alliance of rebel groups – eventually seized power in March 2013. Despite the creation of a...